Albertano Medrano was double-parked on Hermitage Avenue in the Back of the Yards on Labor Day, waiting for his wife and a friend, when a white van pulled up and at least 10 shots were fired, according to police.

Four of the shots hit Medrano in the neck, head and back. The other bullets hit two buildings and four cars on the block, police said. Medrano, 44, tried to drive away but hit three parked cars. He was dead by the time he arrived at Stroger Hospital.

On Wednesday, Victor Vazquez, 20, the driver of the van, was charged with first-degree murder and ordered held on $1 million bail. Prosecutors said he admitted to his role in the shooting, one of nine homicides on Labor Day in Chicago.

Prosecutors said the van had been stolen and its steering column peeled back to start without a key. Vazquez and others drove around the South Side neighborhood, looking for rival gangs to shoot.

After opening fire in the 4500 block of South Hermitage Avenue, the van sped off and crashed about 2 miles away in the 5200 block of South Western Avenue, according to police. Vazquez and another person ran south and tried to stash the rifle in a clothing donation box in a gas station parking lot, prosecutors said.

It apparently didn't fit, and they ran behind the station and pitched it into some bushes, prosecutors said.

With the help of video from the gas station, Vazquez and the other person were arrested in an alley in the 5100 block of South Artesian Avenue, prosecutors said. Police recovered the rifle, they said.

Chicago Police Department

Victor Vazquez

Victor Vazquez

(Chicago Police Department)

Medrano was the father of five children, according to prosecutors. He was among nine men killed over a 21-hour period Monday morning into Tuesday morning, according to police. Twenty-two other people were wounded during that stretch.